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My peace (eirēnēn tēn emēn). This is Christ’s bequest to the disciples before he goes, the shalom of the orient for greeting and parting, used by Jesus in his appearances after the resurrection (Joh 20:19, Joh 20:21, Joh 20:26) as in 2Jo 1:3; 3Jo 1:14, but here and in Joh 16:33 in the sense of spiritual peace such as only Christ can give and which his Incarnation offers to men (Luk 2:14).
Neither let it be fearful (medē deiliatō). Added to the prohibition in Joh 14:1, only N.T. example of deiliaō (rare word in Aristotle, in a papyrus of one condemned to death), common in lxx, like palpitating of the heart (from deilos).